Iconic fashion designer early life gets biopic treatment

'Coco Before Chanel' is like 'La Vie En Rose' without the self-destructive bent. Edith Piaf (Marion Cotillard) and Gabrielle Chanel (Audrey Tautou) are street urchins, original old-school hustlers who survive by their seemingly meager charms (at least in relation to those of their bustier and broader competition) and their wiles, both feminine and performative (which the terribly cynical might say are the same thing). Grade: B-.